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leadghost

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Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 29

Driver issues w/ NetGear MA311 wireless PCI card (hostap/orinoco)

I noticed that Udev is loading too many modules for this card. It actulally runs with both loaded. I tested blacklisting the hostap modules first and the card comes up as eth0 and runs. Slow...but it runs. Then I blacklisted the orinoco modules and tried it. Oddly it creates two interfaces, wlan0 and wifi0. From my googling I get the impression that the hostap modules are the better choice...but I can't get the interface up with them loaded.

Any ideas? Tips on getting this card tuned up right?

[$]lspci -vv | grep -i net
04:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Netgear MA311 802.11b wireless adapter
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[$]hwdetect --net
MODULES=(!hostap !hostap_pci !orinoco !orinoco_pci hostap hostap_pci orinoco orinoco_pci)

[$]uname -a
Linux h3apI 2.6.33-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 30 12:34:43 PDT 2010 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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